70 Quotes by Chris Chibnall

It is a fact of broadcasting that you've got to get the big audiences for the channel that you're on.

Torchwood''s never going to be as heavy an effects show as 'Doctor Who.'

Broadchurch' was all about shades of grey, both in characters and storytelling, and I wanted to see that through to the end.

Growing up as a Brit, Arthur and Merlin and Camelot, and just the idea of it, is embedded in the culture and in your soul, growing up. King Arthur is alongside Robin Hood, as those great British folk tales, myths and icons.

There have been so many different versions of the legend and of 'Camelot,' so what I wanted to do was strip it all back, and go back to the beginning and tell the story of Arthur, from the beginning of the relationship between Merlin and Arthur.

I don't ever want to be gratuitous, for the sake of being gratuitous, but when it serves the stories and the characters, it's nice to be able to do that, realistically and with credibility. You don't want to do it for the sake of it, or shoe-horn it in. But, it's a good tool to have in the toolbox.

You do your best to tell your own story, in the most specific way, and then you hope that that travels well, when it's done with heart and honesty.

I love 'Doctor Who' as a big, popular, mainstream, accessible show.

If ever there was a character that was never defined by gender, it's the Doctor. The Doctor is gender fluid in that sense.